Customized Maternity Shirts

Depending upon the type of customized maternity shirts the outcome may be either hilarious or heart-warming as all this depends upon the design. You have a few options that need to be taken in consideration when you decide to personalize your maternity shirt.

You can use your creative ideas to customize your maternity shirts with you can re-do it completely using different techniques like patch work, tie dye etc. You can also have your t-shirt printed.

There are many options available for creating customized maternity shirts online and there are these companies like Got baby or Cafe Press which help you to customize your shirts with their various features which teach you how to upload a photograph, graphics, etc. They also help you with other choices like you can design the shirt only on the chest or belly, you can also use texts, colour combinations, fonts etc. These companies also offer you the best material for the t-shirts so that they retain their shape even after repeated washing.

To create your own design on the maternity t-shirts is simple and depends upon the type of design you select. If you want something quickly you can use hot iron to transfer the designs but then these designs don't last long especially after a few washes. This may not be a major issue as these shirts are usually worn for a few months.

Other ways to customize maternity shirts is you can fabric paint your shirts, use of marker pens and crayons also give your shirts a good look. Stencils and cut outs, iron transfers are other ways to customize maternity shirts.

More tips to create your own designs

Whatever method you use to personalize your maternity shirts you need to follow a few guidelines like :-

1. Colour - You can use various colour combinations when you create designs but then the colours used should be of contrast so that the designs or messages can be read, the colours should not fade off after a few washes.
2. Font Types - If you are using different font styles then you need to choose fonts that are big in size so that they are clearly visible.
3. Placement - Placement of images and phrases should be in such a way that the message should be well understood but with total discretion. You can send across simple messages using slogans etc.

The use of personalized photographs is more modern and you can have a wonderful backdrop for the photograph to make it look attractive. Make sure that you don't clutter the photograph with unwanted writings or slogans etc. Choose the image wisely as blurry images are hard to transfer. Drawing are hard to transfer as you need to process all those lines and other details so also charcoal and pencil sketches are hard to transfer.

If you are a creative person and know that the design or image or for that matter the message is going to be copied by someone else and this may hamper your dreams to make a mass production of the t-shirts then you need to get design copyright to prevent the copy of the design.